Legalise cannabis for medical use: top professor

[OZ Stoners]

Feb. 2, 2015, 12:15 a.m. The NSW government's clinical trial of medicinal cannabis is inappropriate for patients suffering extreme pain, and the drug should be legally approved for patients diagnosed by doctors, a paper in a top medical journal argues.

 

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[b4weed]

This guy knows his stuff:

 

"If a person in the late stages of painful cancer seeks the euphoria of THC, why should they not have it?

 

"Participants in the control group may demand to transfer to the active arm on seeing others feeling better."

 

The government is examining options to import cannabis for the trial, or have it grown under controlled conditions by contract from the government.

 

But Dr Penington says patients who register with the government should instead be allowed to grow up to 10 of their own plants to establish a supply.